While it’s never been quite clear how nominations or winners are determined — or for that matter whether it’s the performer or the nominated video’s director who is actually winning the award — MTV‘s 30-odd-year old Video Music Awards show somehow remains culturally relevant.

Although the 2016 presidential election is still some time away, candidates – possible, presumed, and announced alike – have begun to emerge as the stage is being set for the first primaries early next year.

Have you ever been keeping up with someone on, say, Tumblr, Twitter, or a favorite message board, and only ever known them by their screenname or online alias? Have you ever been curious to know more about what he or she may be up to elsewhere on the Web?